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2019-05-21

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Biography information for Rishi Sunak

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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2019 to Question
272191 on Public Expenditure: Scotland, what comparability percentage will be applied
to the Government’s contribution to the 2022 Commonwealth Games budget; and what his
timescale is for the publication of the revised Statement of Funding Policy.

<p>The UK government contribution to the 2022 Commonwealth Games budget is subject
to the Barnett formula, which HM Treasury will apply in the normal way.</p><p> </p><p>As
with previous Commonwealth Games, a comparability factor of 100% will be applied for
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>This will be reflected in the
next edition of the Statement of Funding Policy, which is due to be published at the
Spending Review in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Round 2019, HM Treasury published
a Statement of Funding Policy addendum with updated comparability factors to reflect
the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the
reclassification of Network Rail spending from AME to DEL since Spending Review 2015.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to table A5 of the Spending
Round 2019, for what reason the CDEL allocation for the Department for Education has
declined to £5 billion for 2019-20, compared to £5.1 billion in Budget 2018 for the
same financial year.

<p>The Department for Education transferred £130 million of CDEL funding to the Ministry
of Housing, Communities and Local Growth in 2019-20. This funding is made available
for skills capital funding through the Local Growth Fund, which is devolved to Local
Enterprise Partnerships to spend on their capital priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Budget
2018 document reflects the Department for Education’s CDEL allocation for 2019-20
prior to this transfer taking place. Table 3.11 of the Public Expenditure Statistical
Analyses 2019, published in July 2019, takes into account this transfer. The Spending
Round 2019 document reflects the Department for Education’s current CDEL allocation
for 2019-20.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4
September 2019 on Spending Round 2019, how much funding he plans to allocate to Homes
England to deliver more homes where people need them; how many homes are planned to
be built and what the location will be of those homes.

<p>In the latest spending round we have increased the resource funding available to
the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for 2020/21 by 2.7% to deliver
their priorities, including delivering the homes this country needs in the right places.
As part of this settlement, MHCLG’s admin budget will increase from £258m in 2019/20
to £341m in 2020/21, within which funding for Homes England will also increase. This
will enable them to continue delivering significant investment in housing, with at
least £44bn of financial support committed at the Autumn Budget 2017 over a five-year
period, and to support the Government’s overall ambition of 300,000 additional homes
on average by the mid-2020s.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4
September 2019 entitled, Spending Round 2019, to what programmes will the £24 million
additional funding for the Building Safety Programme to support the new building safety
regime be allocated.

<p>The Spending Round confirmed that the Government will provide £24m of additional
funding for the Building Safety Programme in 2020/21 to help prevent a tragedy like
Grenfell happening again. The Government has announced that £10m of this funding will
be available to support the Protection Board who will provide expert, tailored building
checks and inspections, if necessary, on all high-risk residential buildings in England
by 2021. The remaining funding will be used to support the new building safety regime.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his oral statement of 4
September 2019 entitled, Spending Round 2019, what proportion of the £24 million additional
funding for the Building Safety Programme to support the new building safety regime
will be provided to (a) local authorities and (b) housing associations to support
the data collection exercise on external wall systems in high rise buildings.

<p>The Spending Round confirmed that the Government will provide £24m of additional
funding for the Building Safety Programme in 2020/21 to help prevent a tragedy like
Grenfell happening again. Further to this, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities
and Local Government confirmed that an additional £4m of funding will be made available
in 2019/20 to support LAs in the data collection exercise on external wall systems
in high rise buildings.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of per head of population
spending on contingency plans in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal
in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK.

<p>This Government would prefer to leave with a deal and will work in an energetic
and determined way to get that better deal.</p><p> </p><p>But the Treasury stands
ready to provide funding to prepare for leaving without a deal. That is why the Chancellor
and I have made over £2bn available for no deal preparations this year (2019-20) since
taking office. All parts of the UK have benefitted from this funding, with the Barnett
formula being applied in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>Should the UK leave without
a deal, the Treasury will consider the appropriate response. The Government and the
Bank of England have fiscal and monetary policy tools available, and are ready to
respond as appropriate to support the economy should the circumstances require.</p><p>
</p><p>The government has already guaranteed that UK organisations who get EU programme
funding will continue to do so should the EU cease to fund these organisations after
exit.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the £160 million announced in Spending
Round 2019 as a result of the Bew Review will be ringfenced for agriculture so that
the Scottish Parliament can decide how it is allocated within that sector.

<p>The Chancellor announced at the recent Spending Round that we will provide £160m
to the Scottish Government in 2020-21 in relation to historic allocations of Common
Agricultural Policy ‘convergence’ funding. The additional funding will be ring-fenced
for farmers and land managers in Scotland. The review led by Lord Bew of Donegore
has considered a separate but related matter.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential
merits of the recommendation of the National Infrastructure Assessment to provide
devolved, long-term transport funding to all city regions.

<p>The government is carefully considering the National Infrastructure Commission’s
recommendations, including on transport funding for cities. It is already investing
significantly in intra-city transport with the £2.5 billion Transforming Cities Fund
set up in 2017 which provides devolved funding to six Mayoral Combined Authorities
outside of London and competitive funding to up to twelve shortlisted city regions.</p><p>The
National Infrastructure Strategy will be published later in the autumn setting out
the government’s assessment of the NIC’s recommendations, alongside ambitious plans
for future capital spending.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that additional
funding for schools announced in his oral statement on 4 September on Spending Review
2019 will be allocated to school budgets in Northern Ireland in the absence of a functioning
Assembly and Executive.

<p>The UK Government has taken steps to ensure funding is made available to support
education in Northern Ireland. As part of the Fresh Start and Stormont House Agreements,
the Government committed to provide up to £300m to support shared and integrated cross-community
education programmes in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>As education is a devolved
matter, the Barnett formula will be applied in Northern Ireland with respect to the
funding announced for schools in the Spending Round 2019. The allocation of the Northern
Ireland block grant is a devolved matter.</p>

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Northern
Ireland Office on funding for a compensation scheme for the victims of historical
institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

<p>I discuss matters of importance to the people of Northern Ireland on a regular
basis with the Northern Ireland Office. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
is working hard to deliver the redress scheme at the earliest opportunity, and any
costs associated with the proposals will be met by the Northern Ireland block grant,
as this is a devolved matter.</p>